88R7295 MZM-F
 
  By: Campos H.B. No. 1557
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to a Department of Public Safety program to provide grants
  to public improvement districts for services for homeless
  individuals.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subchapter Z, Chapter 411, Government Code, is
  amended by adding Section 411.951 to read as follows:
         Sec. 411.951.  HOMELESS IMPACT GRANT PROGRAM FOR PUBLIC
  IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS. (a) The department shall establish and
  administer a homeless impact grant program to provide grants for
  the provision of additional security and sanitation services for
  homeless individuals in areas for which a public improvement
  district has been created under Subchapter A, Chapter 372, Local
  Government Code.
         (b)  A municipality or county that has created a public
  improvement district may apply for and use a grant under the program
  if:
               (1)  the district is located in a county with an
  unsheltered homeless individual count that exceeds 500 according to
  the most recent point-in-time homeless census; and
               (2)  the services for which the grant will be made are
  an authorized public improvement project of the district.
         SECTION 2.  The Public Safety Commission shall adopt rules
  necessary to implement the program under Section 411.951,
  Government Code, as added by this Act, not later than January 1,
  2024.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.